Shut up and dance!

Get Up and Dance

Wedding celebrations are simple. People want to get up and dance! The wedding DJ needs to be a great MC who knows how to motivate guests and help them overcome inhibitions. Everyone has a great time when the dance floor gets packed. Interestingly, there have been no shortage of songs built around the words ‘get…

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Who says you can change the order of traditional wedding dances?

traditional wedding dances

The quick answer to the headline is: you. YOU can change the order of traditional wedding dances if that is your wish. Is it a good idea? Maybe, maybe not. What are the traditional wedding dances most couples request? The couple’s first dance. The Parent’s dance. The anniversary dance. The money dance. Depending on the…

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Let’s Face the Music and Dance

Let's Face the Music and Dance

Traditional wedding vows pledge fidelity for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, and in sickness and in health. They acknowledge that life presents us with bumps in the road. But the bumps are so much more manageable when two are bound together by love and share the journey. No wedding love song better expresses…

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Top First Dance Songs inspired by the Movies

first dance songs inspired by the movies

Some very good songs bask in obscurity until someone rediscovers their beauty and breathes new life into them. Sometimes it’s a particularly creative new interpretation by a top singing artist. And sometimes first dance songs are inspired by the movies. For example, everyone has heard of Pachebel’s Canon as a go-to piece of music for…

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Consider Broadway songs for your first dance

Broadway songs

Music is a wonderful thing. Contemporary couples have access to a staggering library of enticing songs for their first wedding dance. Sometimes we forget that certain categories of songs offer tremendous options, such as great Broadway songs. If you’re looking for passion, try a Stephen Sondheim song from his aptly named 1994 musical, “Passion.” The…

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Spotify’s odd list of upbeat first dance songs

upbeat first dance songs

Spotify features an interesting list of upbeat first dance songs compiled by Bridal Musings. The list features some lively first dance songs we’ve blogged on in the past. But it also includes a rather odd choice, odd because of the subject matter of the lyrics. #1 on the list is Marvin Gaye’s timeless, “How Sweet…

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The elegant wedding first dance song

elegant wedding

We meet the most interesting people entertaining at Fayetteville weddings. Most couples select a popular song from today or yesteryear for their first wedding dance song. Every now and then, we meet a couple that thinks outside the box and selects a piece of classical music, which really makes for an elegant wedding first dance…

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Favorite first dance songs by generation

Favorite first dance songs by generation

Brides Magazine put an interesting list together of favorite first dance songs by generation. What is interesting about the list is that one song, “Unchained Melody,” was a favorite with two generations. Another, “At Last,” made the top three with two different generations. Here are the lists: Millennials “All of Me,” by John Legend “I…

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Classical music songs for your first dance

Classical music songs for your first dance

Are you open to a wide range of music? If yes, you might want to consider a classical music song for your first dance at your Fayetteville wedding celebration. Many couples use a classical music composition for their wedding ceremony, as we have blogged on in the past. But practically none consider the power of…

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Here’s a wedding jazz standard for your first dance song

wedding jazz standard

One of the most delightful melodies ever written for theater is “All the things you are.” It is simply lovely musically and lyrically, which is why it has become something of a wedding jazz standard. The music was written by Jerome Kern in 1939 for a little known musical (Very Warm for May), with lyrics…

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